Who reads anymore, anyways? (Approval notice!)

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

PS. Don’t take “I don’t read” literally… I would never be proud of “not reading”…

• I read a lot. This was in my inbox today.

Umm…

So…back to being a screw-up…

I totally screwed up….

But since programming is ALL about screwing up…haha

• I “don’t read”, so I didn’t put the files into a folder and used a new container for my Firebase branch test that wasn’t synched properly.

  Whoops!

But…

• I fixed it..woohoo! Just put it on a different branch.

Mini-Exam

• I have a mini-exam today.

Katas

I solved two.

• The first is: Detect if a string starts with “Can you Explain” (case-sensitive)

function detect(comment)
{
  var word = comment.split(" ");
  if ((word[0] == "Can") && (word[1] == "someone")
  && (word[2] == "explain"))
  {
    return(true);
  }
  else
  {
    return(false);
  }
  
}

This one I sort of duct-taped the answer, but it passed.

2 * x + another_value = total_value. Find x.

function twiceOfANumber(added_value, total_value) {
  if ((added_value == 1) && (total_value == 2)){
    return 0.5;
  } 
  else if ((added_value == false) || (total_value == false)){
    return null;
  }
  else if ((added_value == true) || (total_value == true)){
    return null;
  }
  
  else{
    var x = (total_value - (added_value)) / 2.0;
    return x;
  }
  
}

Okay..I lied…

One last one…(Code Wars is so addictive!)

• This one just had sums for letters that were one side vs the other. Based on that you printed a response.

• I know..my code is too long. Lazy coder! LOL. Lazy coder whose tests passed! (haha!)

  function alphabetWar(fight)
  {
   var left = 0;
   var right = 0;
   for (var i = 0; i < fight.length; i++){
     if (fight[i] == 'w'){
       left = left + 4;
     }
     else if (fight[i] == 'p')
     {
       left = left + 3;
     }
     else if (fight[i] == 'b')
     {
       left = left + 2;
     }
     else if (fight[i] == 's'){
       left = left + 1;
     }
     else if (fight[i] == 'm'){
       right = right + 4;
     }
     else if (fight[i] == 'q'){
       right = right + 3;
     }
     else if (fight[i] == 'd'){
       right = right + 2;
     }
     else if (fight[i] == 'z'){
       right = right + 1;
     }
       
   }
   if (right == left){
     return("Let's fight again!")
   }
   else if (right > left){
     return("Right side wins!")
   }
   else{
     return("Left side wins!")
   }
  }
  

  Plan for today

• Review C++ notes for mini-exam.

• Start Algorithms coursework

• If I have time, look at Firebase implementation (since we’ll be using that this Saturday).

Update…and Finally…

• A huge application part-y thingy was approved for my green card. So, looks like you are stuck with me in this beautiful country! Mwahaha! :) dances